At the moment this month, the European Union on Thursday prolonged its ban on Americans, as COVID-19 infections continued to increase in the United States.
The EU began lifting its restrictions outside the block on 1 July, welcoming visitors from 14 countries, adding Canada, South Korea and Australia. The US was excluded from this initial list and the EU extended its ban on Americans visiting the block on July 16.
The announcement, through the European Council, came after EU officials carried out a fortnightly review of the restrictions, examining coronavirus trends and containment measures in each country to determine whether to load or decrease the list of legal lers.
The key measure: the pandemic epidemic in a given country will have to be contained in the same or greater way as in the EU.
The United States had more than 4.4 million CASES of COVID-19 on Thursday and more than 151,000 deaths, more than any other country, according to Johns Hopkins University.
European countries have made much more progress in the control of coronavirus, which is for COVID-19. According to EU data, the bloc, which includes the European Economic Area (EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and the UK, reported more than 1.7 million instances on Thursday.
Three U.S., California, Florida, and New York states have more than 400,000 cases, while a fourth, Texas, has about the same amount. No other EU country has more than 300,000 cases, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Here are the dozens of countries where citizens can join the EU. The list has not been replaced in the last two weeks, when Montenegro and Serbia were removed:
Thursday’s decree does not apply to Britain, which left the EU in January.
The U.S. State Department has pleaded with unconstitutional foreign Americans since March.